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8 Money,Inflation,Growth,And Cycles Economics 314 Coursebook, 2010 Jeffrey Parker 8 MONEY, INFLATION, GROWTH, AND CYCLES Chapter 8 Contents A. Topics and Tools ............................................................................ 2 B. Money .......................................................................................... 3 What is money? ........................................................................................................... 3 Money supply and money demand ................................................................................. 4 Money as a social institution ......................................................................................... 4 Why don’t the Ramsey and Diamond economies need money? ......................................... 5 Why do real economies need money? .............................................................................. 6 C. Highlights in the History of Money ..................................................... 8 D. Defining Money in Modern Economies ............................................... 11 E. Monetary Policy and the Supply of Money ........................................... 13 Assets and liabilities in a simple monetary system .......................................................... 13 Money, the monetary base, and the money multiplier .................................................... 16 Monetary policy and interest rates ................................................................................ 18 F. Theories of the Demand for Money .................................................... 19 Quantity theory: Money in the classical macro model .................................................... 19 The evolution of money-demand theory ........................................................................ 21 Keynes’s three motives for money demand ..................................................................... 22 The money-demand decision ....................................................................................... 23 Baumol and Tobin’s transactions-demand model .......................................................... 24 Modeling precautionary demand ................................................................................. 26 Is there a speculative demand for money? ...................................................................... 28 An integrated model of money demand ......................................................................... 30 G. Money in Economic Growth Models .................................................. 32 Simple macroeconomics of money and growth ............................................................... 32 Building money into the microfoundations of growth models .......................................... 33 H. The Financial Crisis of 2008–09 ......................................................... 33 Major elements of the crisis .......................................................................................... 34 Downturn .................................................................................................................. 36 Policy alternatives ...................................................................................................... 38 I. Suggestions for Further Reading ........................................................ 39 The nature and history of money ................................................................................. 39 J. Works Cited in Text ....................................................................... 39 A. Topics and Tools We have now completed half a semester of analysis of macroeconomic models and we have yet to introduce one of the principal variables of macroeconomics: money. How did the Ramseys and Diamonds of these worlds buy and sell things without money? What, if not money, did they borrow and lend in order to execute their precisely calibrated lifetime consumption plans, maintaining their knife-edge balance on the saddle path? We answer that question below by demonstrating how the highly artificial as- sumptions of these models freed their occupants from needing money. In doing so we will explore the reasons why money is needed when we abandon these assump- tions. This leads us to discuss money’s role in modern economies and what physical and virtual commodities fulfill that role. The basic definition of money and its role in the economy is standard content in both introductory and intermediate macroeconomics courses, which means that the typical reader of Romer’s textbook will have studied this material twice and need no review. Because you are using Romer at a much earlier stage of your macroeconom- ics education, we’ll have to fill in a lot of basic information here in this chapter that would normally appear in the textbook. To summarize the basic theory of money in stark brevity: Money is demanded by households and firms as the medium with which to accomplish transactions in the markets for goods, labor, and credit. The supply of money comes from the banking system. The ability of the private banking system to create monetary assets depends in part on the amount of “base money” provided by the central bank, which is usual- ly an agency of the national government. In the short run, imbalances between the demand for money and its supply are likely to be resolved by changes in interest rates, though in the long run changes in the general price level may supplant these interest-rate effects. Changes in interest rates affect the demand for investment, con- sumption, and saving, so monetary conditions may have a substantial impact on ag- gregate demand. 8 – 2 B. Money As noted above, the basic story of how the monetary system works is one of the glaring omissions—for our purposes—from Romer’s text. Given his intended au- dience of economics graduate students, there is probably no need to cover these ba- sics. However, since we are using it in an undergraduate context, we cannot take for granted that everyone is fully up to speed on what money is and the various theories of why people demand it. This coursebook chapter fills in some basic information about the monetary system. We can introduce monetary issues only briefly here. Students who would like to learn more details about the monetary system and monetary policy should consider enrolling in Economics 341: Monetary and Fiscal Policy. What is money? Everyone “knows” what money is, but putting a precise definition on it can be a little tricky. Economists usually define money functionally—by what it does rather than as a specific commodity or set of commodities. The two most common (and very closely related) functions of money are means of payment, and medium of ex- change. An asset is a means of payment if receiving it from the buyer in a transaction extinguishes all of the buyer’s obligations to pay for the commodity being purchased. If you handed Lois a $20 bill as payment for the coursebook, you owe nothing fur- ther and thus the $20 bill was accepted as a means of payment. While means of payment and medium of exchange are often used interchangea- bly, Goodhart (1989) makes a subtle distinction between the two. Suppose that Lois accepts an IOU—a slip of paper from you promising to pay $20 on your next pay- day—and gives you the coursebook. In this case, the IOU functioned as a medium of exchange because it allowed the transaction to proceed and facilitated the transfer of the coursebook. However, it did not extinguish your liability for payment, thus it did not function as a means of payment. When you bring a $20 bill to Lois to retire your debt, the transaction will be complete and it is the $20 bill that provides the ultimate means of payment. In many, perhaps most, cases the medium of exchange can also be thought of as a means of payment. However, in cases such as credit purchases it is clear that there is a distinction and that money would be defined differently depending on whether we consider it to be only the asset that provides the means of payment function or all assets that served the less restrictive function of medium of exchange. Money also provides several other functions. The use of money as a means of payment makes it convenient to quote prices in terms of money—to use money as a unit of account. Thus the dollar in the United States is not only a physical commodity 8 – 3 such as a bill or coin, but also an abstract unit in which value is measured. The unit of account and the means of payment need not always be the same. For example, in some tourist locations prices are quoted in the local currency, but dollars are also ac- cepted as means of payment. Money also usually serves as a standard of deferred payment, meaning that future payments are contracted in terms of dollars. Rapid and (particularly) variable infla- tion reduces money’s effectives in this role. Finally, like nearly all other assets, money is a store of value. The effectiveness of an asset as a store of value depends on the degree and certainty with which the asset maintains its value over time. Money retains its value well as long as inflation is pre- dictably low and the likelihood of replacement of the current monetary asset (per- haps through revolution) is remote. When money’s role as a store of value is com- promised, people will not want to hold it, hence it will tend to be replaced as a means of payment as well. Money supply and money demand The role of money in the macroeconomy is usually examined in a supply/demand framework. The supply of money in modern economies is
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